Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court would take on the most daunting position. As Truman described Jackson’s appointment officially, the justice would be “Chief Counsel for the United States in preparing and prosecuting charges of atrocities and war crimes . . . to bring to trial before an international military tribunal.” Justice Jackson was going to begin to build cases and the foundation for an international court to try them, to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. The only member of the current United States Supreme Court who had never completed law school, Jackson—widely
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